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Ivan Eland Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

Locals Leading the Fight Against the Islamic State Will Be More Effective

Posted: 09/08/2014

Although President Obama insists that no American military "boots on the ground" will be used to degrade and defeat the radical Islamist group Islamic State (IS) -- which is well funded and has captured much heavy military equipment from the Syrian military and U.S. trained and equipped Iraqi army and Kurdish peshmerga militias -- that will make his objective much harder to obtain.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/locals-leading-the-fight_b_5785300.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications